FOUR SIXES TO BEAT: The Tale of a Killer

John Wesley Hardin was a productof the post Civil War era in Texas.¿ Being of high intelligence and reared by anupstanding, good, and hardworking family, in any other time, he might haverisen to great heights and prominence in our Country's history.But fate has a dark and lightside.¿ And early on, the dark side seemedto gain the upper hand in Hardin's personality.¿Through out his life, he struggled for a balance. He was neither arobber nor a thief.¿ Had he been, hewould have gone down in the annals of time with the likes of Jesse James.¿ No, John Wesley Hardin was only a killer ofmen.¿ Justified or not, you be the judge.

Bruce Croft was born and raisedin Ludlowville, a small village in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.¿ After graduating from Ithaca College, with amid interruption to serve with the U.S. Navy destroyer fleet, he began to roam;Three years in Los Angeles, thirteen in Hawaii, six and in Dallas, year and in Connecticut, fifteen years in Apple Valley, MN, and two years in Red Wing,MN.¿ And in between, he has traveledaround the world and since retiring, he continues to travel.¿ But from as far back as he can remember, he has had a love of the 'Old West' and the independentpeople who had the courage, good and bad, to make such a short period sopronounced in all the ages of history.¿Bruce now resides and writes in Henderson, Nevada.